From The Vault
August 18, 2021: Black August 1993
California is currently in the middle of a state wide Prison crisis which includes Prison overcrowding and a Prisoner lead Hunger Strike to bring attention to the abuses taking place at the State’s four Supermax prisons.
On this edition of From the Vault we turn the clock back to 1993 when Pacifica Radio devoted an entire day to recognize Black August, the annual commemoration of the liberation struggles of Africans Americans that began with the killing of prisoner George Jackson on August 21, 1971.